Rick Scott, the Lex Luthor of GOP governors, has a bit of an e-mail problem down in Florida.
Florida Governor Rick Scott says he only learned within the past two weeks that emails from the transitional period between his election last fall and his swearing-in as governor had been irretreviably lost.
According to the St. Petersburg Times, however, the Texas company that set up the email accounts notified Scott's transition team by mid-March that emails from 44 out of 47 accounts, including Scott's own, had been permanently deleted.
Now here's the problem with that. Those transitional team e-mail accounts? Florida law prohibits those records from being deleted. Ricky here may actually be in a world of trouble:
The deletions represent a violation of Florida public records law, which provides for penalties ranging from a $500 fine up to impeachment for an official who "knowingly violates" the law.
Which means if Scott was informed by the hosting company that his accounts would be zapped and the Scott team did nothing to preserve the e-mails anyway, then somebody's head could roll. Wouldn't it be amusing to see Mr. Free Market here get taken down for outsourcing his team's email to another state and then failing to keep the records? Hey, they got Capone on tax evasion.
